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United States Havy Plane Missing Off Coast of Communist China Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 51st Year 28 Pages Talent POPULAR EXHIBIT Attracting consider able attention, at the 4-H and FFA fair is a model airplane exhibit in the 4-H home economics and hobby building. Pointing out features of his electric-powered piper cub is Henry Scott.' Looking on are, left to right, . NEW ARRIVAL Hardly a fair goes, by without a "blessed event" occurring in one of the barns. It happened at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday, when this registered Aberdeen Angus suddenly became .a mother at the 4-H and FFA fairgrounds. Both mother and infant are doing yell. They belong to David Mack, member of the Crater chapter, Future Farmers of America. This photo was taken when "Baby" was only 20 minutes old. Withdrawal of Land For Recreation Asked Proposed withdrawal of 0.410.59 acres of public land in the Rogue River National forest for recreation purposes has been announced by Virgil T. Heath, state supervisor of the Bureau of Land Management at Port land. The public land lies in the Fish Lake. Dead Indian. Soda Springs. Lake of the Woods, Four Mile Lake, Recreation Creek and Huckleberry City rec reation areas. Application for the withdrawal was filed by the assistant secre tary of the department of agri culture and was recorded at the public land office at Portland on April 5. 1954. The effect was to temporarily ban prospecting and location of mining claims under the general mining laws in the affected areas, pending action by the department of the in terior. A 30-day waiting period, end ing Sept. 21. is allowed for writ ten comments or objections to be submitted by the public. The lands are situated along lakes, streams and springs on both east and west slopes of the Six Volunteer Firemen Central Foint Six volunteer firemen, including a captain and a battalion chief, resigned from the Central Foint Rural Fire Protection district at a meeting of the firemen last night. Their resignations are effective Aug. 31. The firemen said they were re signing because of "continuing opposition from Bert Smith, chairman of the board of direc tnr tn oDerations of the fire department- Xkejr mui tfcey MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY; AUGUST 23, 1956 Project Approved 'fJFfl 'I IJI I Cascade mountains in Jackson and Klamath counties. They are highly valuable for their scenic, aesthetic and recreation uses, BLM officials said. The object of the proposed withdrawal is to protect and preserve use of these areas for the general pub lic and prevent despoilation by locations or entries which may damage their recreational val ues. A detailed description of the public land embraced in the pro posed withdrawal has appeared in the Federal Register, and will be posted in the land office at Portland; district forester's of fice. Bureau of Land Manage ment in Medford: and office of the supervisor. Rogue River Na tional Forest in Medford. Hall Reecfed as Republican Chairman San Francisco U.R) Leon ard W. Hall was reelected by ac clamation today as Republican National Chairman by the mem bers of the National Committee. Hall, 55. . was the choice of President Eisenhower. they "could not continue in the department if Smith would not resign." Give Resignations Resigning last night were Bat talion Chief Tom Thomas, Capt. Roy Bratten and Firemen Allen Bishop, Dave Drummond. Ellis Feinstein and Dick Hufteling. It was reported that one oth er captain in the department has indicated he may also resign in the near future. If the report is iejt-Uoxttct, it would leave only enfhwrmraow and Krupp will be onj Charles Swingle, James Scott and Everett Overholdt. All are members of the Phoenix 4-H club. Henry's electric model is controlled from box-like apparatus on table. Smaller models exhibited on table belong to Swingle. Dairy Judging, Sale Slated Tomorrow - Dairy, judging and the live stock auction take the spotlight in the Jackson county 4-H and Future Farmers of America fair at the fairgrounds tomorrow. Events begin at 9 a.m. with dairy judging in two . rings. Glenn Klein, 4-H agent, said more than 200 dairy animals will be judged. Judges are Glen Goble, county agent and dairy specialist from Sacramento county, California, and Ray Hob- son, a dairyman from Klamath Falls. At 7:30 p.m. the annual live stock auction will attract mer chants and meat packers fr,om around the valley. The stock was raised by members of coun ty 4-H and FFA clubs. Klein says about 65 steers, 110 hogs and 120 Iambs will be sold by Auctioneer Bill Bray of Central Point. The fair has been receiving "very good" attendance since it started Tuesday, Klein said. Today's events wind up with the swine showmanship beginning at 7 p.m. ' Trial for Driver Gets Late Start The district court trial of Carl Wallace McMillan, 50, route 2, box 816, Central Point, was just getting underway at 10:30 a.m. today. McMillan is charged with driv ing while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. The trial was scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. but pre-trial legal maneu vers by attorneys held it up for an hour. The nature of the ma neuvers was not known. McMillan was the driver of a car which struck a jeep in which members of the Arthur Hanshew family of 2111j North Columbus ave., were riding last July 21. Michael Elmer Hanshew, 8-weeks old, was killed in the accident and others in the family were injured. Noreen and Edward Kelly are attorneys for the defendant. Dis trict Attorney Walter Nunley is taking the case for the state. at Central volunteer captain in the depart. ment. DeArmond. who is also secre tary of the board of directors, said Richard Krupp is so far the only paid member of the de partment who has resigned. Krupp's resignation as fire chief also becomes effective Aug. 31. He will be replaced by L. C. Lisenbee, who has been with the department for five years. Lisen bee will take over as fire chief Tribune United Press Full Leased Win Price 5c No. 132 Irrigation District Landowners Give Go-Ahead Signal $20 Million Job Wins by Big Margin The Talent Irrigation district's repayment contract with the fed eral government was approver: 111 to 11 yesterday by voters of the district. A total of 123 landowners voted, with one ballot invalid. There were 436 eligible to vote. To Repay Government Approval means the district will repay the government $5 800,000 over a period of up to 60 years for the irrigation work to be done by the bureau of recla mation on the Talent project. The entire project involves ir rigation, power, flood c o ntrol and recreation benefits and will cost an estimated $20 million Power revenues are expected to pay for the balance. Congress has authorized the project and has allocated initial appropria tions of $2,400,000 for this fiscal year. Bureau Notified -James A. Callan, engineer m charge of the project, said this morning that he has notified the bureau of reclamation regional office of the district's approval of the repayment contract. He expects the bureau to award the first contract, for the Deadwood tunnel, next week. Bids were called on the tunnel July 2. It will transport water from the collection canals to the Howard Prairie dam. Also on Schedule Howard Prairie dam and the main delivery canal are also on the construction. schedule for this fall. This year's work on the can al will include about 10 miles from the dam toward the Green Springs pass. Next year, Callan said, the canal will be com pleted with another nine miles down to the Keene Creek reser voir. From the reservoir another tunnel will take the water to the Green Springs power plant. SP Hearing Slated For September 18 Hearing on Southern Pacific Railway company's abandon ment of passenger service be tween Eugene and Ashland will be resumed Sept. 18 at 10 a.m., in the federal courtroom of the post office building in Medford, Charles H. Heltzel, public utili ties commissioner announced ten day. Southern Pacific's answer to a complaint filed by three sen ators asking restoration of the service began in Medford Aug. After four days, in which several experts testified, the hearing was recessed. SP aban doned rail passenger service on the Siskiyou line in August, 1955. Complainants in the case are Sen. Gene L. Brown, Grants Pass, Sen. Paul E. Geddes. Rose- burg: and Sen. Philip B. Lowry, Medford. Their side of the mat ter was presented at hearings in Roseburg and Medford last April. Weather FORECAST: Threat of thunder storms over mountains this evening. Otherwise varUnie hifh cloudiness through Fri day. Low tonight 58. Hih Friday 90-92. Hirhet yesterday - Lowest this mo r nine 59 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise . . 5:27 a. . 7:00 p. 7:42 p. Sunset . Moonrise Last Quarter Aug. 28 PROMINENT STARS Arcturus, in the west.. 8:43 p.m. AJriefaaran. rises 11:56 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Saturn, sets 10:08 p.m. Mara, In the southeast 11:07 p.m. Venus, in the east 4:35 a-m. Point Quit vacation the final week of his tenure with the department. DeArmond and Lawrence Hull Monday resigned as directors ef fective Aug. 31. Their resigna tions were given in identical let ters addressed to Smith. They also stated they were resigning in protest to Smith's "continuing opposition to every small detail that the board takes action on as a whole." Members of the district claim rictian ha existed, ia to de IKE LAUNCHES DRIVE FOR GOP ItJ CONGRESS -iWBsfe! " rf '"::--- PRESIDENT EISENHOWER 'All-Out Business' Bitterness Marks End of Conference Oyer Suez Dispute London (U.R) The 22-nation Suez conference ended today in an atmosphere of bitterness heightened by the virtual cer tainty Egypt would reject the majority approved plan to inter nationalize the canal. There was unanimous agree ment only that a full transcript of the proceedings should be transmitted to Egyptian Presi dent Gamal Abdel Nasser. Split Charged To West Russian Foreign Minister D. T. Shepilov accused the West of 'splitting the conference" with its determination to submit to Egypt the John Foster Dulles plan for internationalization which was supported by 18 of the 22 nations attending. India s V. K. Krishna Menon also sharply criticized the way the conference was winding up. Expect Egypt's Refusal Authoritative sources in Cairo said that Nasser's answer to the Dulles plan will be a firm "no. They said, however, he would receive any delegation from the London conference. The Cairo sources said also there was little enthusiasm in Egypt for the Indian plan which would recognize Egypt's right to own and control the canal but would set up an international body with advisory capacities only. (See story on Page 10) Unitarian Leader Will Speak Here The Rev. Stephen H. Fritch man, former editor of the "Chris tian Register," official publica tion of the Unitarian churches in the United States and Canada, will speak at a meeting of the Medford-Ashland Unitarian fel lowship at 8 p.m. today in the Labor temple, 24V4 South Grape st. The public is welcome. Mr. Fritchman served as editor of the church publication from 1942-47, and for nine years was national executive director of youth activities for the Ameri can Unitarian association. He is the author of many books in cluding "Men of Liberty Ten Unitarian Biographies' "Young People in the Liberal church," Unitananism Today" and "Axi oms of Freedom." The minister , also edited Prayers of the Free Spirit"-for the National YMCA Press and "Together We Advance," a re port on contemporary Unitarian- ism. He is a regular contributor to "The Churchman," "The In quirer" and other periodicals of this country. Before entering the ministry, he served as. religious news editor of the New York Herald Tribune and on the faculties of Ohio Wesleyan, New York and Boston universities. Mr. Fritch man has been minister of Uni tarian churches in Petersham, Mass., and Bangor, Maine, and is now minister of First Unitar ian church. Lbs Angeles. in Protest partment for more than a year. It was recently climaxed with Krupp's resignation after a dis pute over a contract proposal. Though some have blamed Smith for the friction, Smith has blamed Krupp and the entire board of directors. The chairman has ignored several requests for his resignation by others in the department. Smith could not be reached either today or yesterday for comment on the resignations. Eisenhower-Nixon Ticket Unanimous Convention Choice President Said 'Rarin' To Go' San Francisco (U.PJ A "rarin' to go" President Eisen hower launched a Republican drive today to win control of congress, as well as the White House, in November. 1 Rep. Leslie C. Arends of Illi nois, a member of the committee which formally notified the Pres ident of his unanimous renomi nation by the Republican Na tional Convention, described him as "very chipper this morning" and "rarin' to go" into the fall campaign. All-Out Business "This is an all-out business with him now," Arends said. Mr. Eisenhower and Vice Pres iden Richard M. Nixon, also re- Stories on President Eisen hower's conference with con gressional candidates, Harold Stassen's attempt to repair his damaged political career, and Robert Dickey's convention observations appear on page 8. nominated unanimously Wednes day night, will deliver their ac ceptance speeches m the Cow Palace at a session starting at 3 p.m. (PST). White House officials said Mr. Eisenhower will spur the dele gates to giant labors to get the House and Senate away from the Democrats, who captured them in 1854. Nixon Speaks First The convention notifi cation party was headed by Sen. Wil liam F. Knowland of California. Mr. Eisenhower's speech will follow Nixon's acceptance ad dress. It will run about 4,000 words and take 30 to 40 minutes to deliver. Nixon winged back to San Francisco from Whittier, Calif., where he was summoned Wed nesday by the serious illness of his 77-year-old father, Frank. The elder Nixon was reported improved. Candidates Summoned The president did not await formal notification of his renom ination to start firing up the party for the fall campaign.' He summoned 40 GOP con gressional candidates to his hotel suite and posed with them for "me and Ike" pictures for the hometown newspapers. The windup convention session begins at 3 p.m. but there will be an hour or two of preliminar ies, including the introduction of a long parade of congressional candidates, before the Nixon and Eisenhower speeches. Salem U.R Re-establish ment of a traffic control tower at Salem's McNary field will de pend on a S50,000 bond issue to be decided by city voters in November. Fire Suppression Crews Bring 20-Acre Blaze Under Control in National Forest A 20 acre forest fire on the Rogue River National Forest was reported under control by 7:30 a.m. today, according to the for est service office in Medford. , The fire was in California on Fruit mountain, some eight miles southwest of the Copper post of fice. It was a holdover from a lightning strike during recent storms. Four smoke jumpers were sent to the site late yester day afternoon. Sixteen men were sent in by foot during the night and reached the fire at about daybreak this morning, the forest service reported. The area is inaccessible by ground vehicle, and the fire fighters had to hike six milee on foot from the road's end at the Cook and Green camp south of Copper. The men radioed this morning that they had the fire under con trol and that it covered about 20 acres. S. T.. Moore, fire control officer, and J. H. Wood, super visor of the Rogue River nation al forest, were flying over the area in a commercial plane early this morning. ' A forest service helicopter, re cently obtained and the first to be used on the Rogue River na tional forest, was to fly into the Fruit mountain area and pick up the smoke jumpers today. This, the forest service said, will save time and the men's energy. Ordinarily they would have to walk their way out from the fire site. , All other spot fires which had been reported as a result ef Sun- k ' RICHARD NIXON To Speak Before Ike Fugitive Returned To Face Charges In Jackson County Paul Leon Jacks, 21, route 1, box 133, Gold Hill, was returned to the Jackson county jail yes terday afternoon to face two separate charges, rape and bur glary not in a dwelling. Sheriff's Deputy Joe Walch brought Jacks from Gulf Port, Miss., where he was held on a federal fugitive warrant after failing . to appear for his trial here April 26. Jacks was first arrested in October of 1955 and a grand jury returned an indictment Dec. 9, charging him with the rape of a juvenile. He was ar raigned in circuit court Dec. 12 and the case was continued to Dec 14. He entered a plea of innocent. Bond was set at $1,500. The trial date was set for April 26, 1956. Shade and Gladys Combs, Rogue River, posted the $1,500 necessary for Jacks to go .free on bail. When the trial date came, he failed to appear. Meanwhile, the grand jury had returned another indict ment against Jacks, charging him with burglary not in a dwelling, this one on April 1. Warrant Obtained On the basis of the two charges, a federal fugitive war rant was obtained by the dis trict attorney's office, and Jacks was arrested by FBI agents in Hattiesburg, Miss., July 14. Deputy Sheriff Joe Walch was sent to pick up the fugitive at Gulf Port, Miss., and bring him back through extradition action to the Jackson - county jail. The circuit court will set a new date for his trial. Bond is expected to be set tomorrow, when Circuit Judge Orval J. Millard from Josephine county holds court here in the absence of H. K. Hanna, who is on vacation. , Algiers, Algeria (U.R) Two French military planes collided the air over Algeria today, killing seven fliers. day and Monday evening light ning storms are under control or out, the forest service said.' State forest department crewmen were working today on two more lightning fires spot ted following the Sunday and Monday evening thunderstorms. "We Stand Upon Peiping Reports Aircraft Damaged After 'Intrusion' Plane Radio Tells Of Attack Off China Taipeh, Formosa (U.B Peiping Radio said today that Communist Chinese fighter planes "damaged" an aircraft in the same area where a U. S. Navy Martin Mercator plane is missing off the China coast with 16 men aboard. Plane Radios Attack , The Red Chinese broadcast said the engagement took place "before 1 a.m. this morning." In Washington, the Navy depart ment said the Navy plane ra dioed at 12:25 a.m. today (9:25 a.m. PST Wednesday) that it was under attack off Red China and 160 miles north of Formosa. The Navy said the plane's radio transmission "suddenly stopped" and it "presumably" was shot down. The Communist broadcast said the plane "flew off in the south east direction after being hit," Gie No Details - Peiping Radio gave no details of the type of aircraft which it said "intruded" over Communist coastal islands not far from Shanghai. It identified it only as "A Chiang Kai-shek plane." Nationalist forces of General issimo Chiang Kai-shek based on this island use American type airplanes. ' It appeared likely that the Communist pilots were unable to see the plane involved clearly in the midnight darkness over the China Sea. . Washington (U.PJ The Unit ed States asked Britain today to get Red China to supply an of ficial explanation for the shoot ing down of a Navy patrol plane with 16 men aboard off the China mainland Wednesday. The British investigation may be the forerunner of a stiff U.S. protest against this latest inci dent in the cold war between this country and the Peiping regime. The State Department request ed Britain's help because this country does not maintain diplo matic relations with Red China. Senators Ask Study Of Storm Damage Senators Richard Neuberger and Wayne Morse today asked Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson to conduct a survey of storm damage in the Rogue river valley to see if it qualifies for emergency federal loans. The senators told Benson that successive wind storms and cold weather have heavily damaged the area's fruit crop, and they urged immediate action to ascer tain if emergency loans are need ed to help the growers of the area. Such loans are made by the government at 3 per cent inter est if commercial loans are not ' available. Word of their action was tele phoned to the Mail Tribune by Senator Neuberger's Portland of fice. ' One was off Ashland Mine rd. and the other on the Green Springs. Crews from Copco and Pacific Telephone and Telegraph comp any today are also in the final phase of repairing storm damage throughout Jackson county. Our Progri
